quotations about conformity
Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.
HERBERT GOLD
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"Protocols of the Elders of Bohemia"
Conformity is a problem for many small groups. Members put a higher priority on cohesion than on coming up with a well-reasoned choice. They pressure dissenters, shield themselves from negative feedback, keep silent when they disagree.
CRAIG E. JOHNSON
Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.
THOMAS WATSON
The Greatest Quotations of All Time
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
JAMES THURBER
attributed, Oxymoronica
Even though no one else discovers the nonconformity or enforces the rules against it, the individual who has committed the impropriety may himself act as the enforcer. He may brand himself as deviant because of what he has done and punish himself in one way or another for his behavior.
HOWARD S. BECKER
Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance
A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray.
ALAN SHERMAN
attributed, Quote Unquote
Conformity is the ape of harmony.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
journals, 1840
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds: the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counterfetishism.
LOUIS KRONENBERGER
Company Manners
Conformity--the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.
MARK TWAIN
The Wit & Wisdom of Mark Twain
In individualistic cultures, conformity is seen as a sign of weakness ... people want to stand out and be different, and we admire people who differentiate themselves from the crowd.... In contrast, people in collectivistic cultures often place a particular value on fitting in with others and conforming to social norms, and therefore conformity is seen as a sign of self-control, maturity, tolerance, and respect for others.
CATHERINE A. SANDERSON
Social Psychology
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
ROBERT ANTHONY
The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
The Wisdom of JFK
Death is just the final form of conformity
if that's what becoming it means
well then I'd rather be the
Lone ranger
MARK SALLING
"Lone Ranger"
Sophistication is upscale conformity.
JAMES RICHARDSON
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays
You're afraid to see where it's leading. I'm not. I'll tell you. The world of the future. The world I want. A world of obedience and unity. A world where the thought of each man will not be his own, but an attempt to guess the thought in the brain of his neighbor who'll have no thought of his own but an attempt to guess the thought of the next neighbor who'll have no thought--and so on.
AYN RAND
The Fountainhead
Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!
ALFRED DE MUSSET
Fantasio
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
attributed, A View from the Cosmic Mirror
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Self-Reliance", Essays
We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The ABC of Relativity
But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.
HOWARD ZINN
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train